"Although the error may have been one which many might make, it amounted to a significant failure to keep a proper lookout and to manage the car correctly, " Lord Justice Hughes said.

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The International Monetary Fund's loan to Argentina in August 2001 is now generally reckoned to have been a grave error (although not everyone involved at the time accepts that view).

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Staff at the three broadcasters said their computers crashed and could not be restarted, with screens simply displaying an error message, although they have continued to make television broadcasts, our correspondent said.

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